Ronald Koeman discussion

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Niasse was injured...valencia couldnt play vs west ham....= calvert lewin. Check it if you like ;)

Coleman cant defend and to be honest i couldnt care less if hes irelands captain...he's been poor for 2 seasons++

If we want to win then we play Davies not Cleverley or McCarthy...

What kind of idiot plays players in full games straight after injury who arent even that good anyway?!
How do you know Niasse was injured? He wasn't according to the injury record here http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/clubs/8/everton_injuries.html

Coleman has scored 2 goals since he's got back which have both won us points.

Davies is still very young to play as a DM, him being ripped apart by Chelsea wouldn't have been a good experience for him. Him coming on with 20 minutes left for experience when the game is already lost and getting praised is a much better scenario.
 
12 games in and the top 5 have lost 5 games between them this season. A grand total of 1 of those defeats have come from teams outside the top 5 themselves, and you reckon that there's no consistency amongst the top sides? On what planet exactly?

No, as in consistency within the rest of the league (outside of the top five/six). My point wasn't very clear though so sorry bout that :)
 
How do you know Niasse was injured? He wasn't according to the injury record here http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/clubs/8/everton_injuries.html

Coleman has scored 2 goals since he's got back which have both won us points.

Davies is still very young to play as a DM, him being ripped apart by Chelsea wouldn't have been a good experience for him. Him coming on with 20 minutes left for experience when the game is already lost and getting praised is a much better scenario.

Niasse wasn't injured. Koeman just doesn't play him.
 

Well we're 7th and I'm yet to see a team who is currently below us who looks better or more consistent.


For flip sake Sunderland have been more "consistent" than us since the middle of September, Toff o_O

Without fact checking, I would wager a sporting quid that only Swansea and Hull have gained less points than us since September 17th.

Consistent?

Consistently awful if you ask me :p
 
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Saying we should have finished 6th if we got the results we should have got. Would have put us 2 points off 4th if we had done it all

BUT

The season would have seen us climbing to there, so no chance of getting 4th, but after the final game we would have settled in 6th or 7th.
 
For flip sake Sunderland have been more "consistent" than us since the middle of September, Toff o_O

Without fact checking, I would wager a sporting quid that only Swansea and Hull have gained less points than us since September 17th.

Consistent?

Consistently awful if you ask me :p

We've been awful for the past 6 games (bar West Ham) - not arguing with that.

The fact that we're still in 7th backs up my point though...
 
We've been awful for the past 6 games (bar West Ham) - not arguing with that.

The fact that we're still in 7th backs up my point though...
For a club who have lost 4 out of the last 6 games, with one win in that time, think 7th place is more of a sign of teams being crap below us rather than a good position tbh.
 
For a club who have lost 4 out of the last 6 games, with one win in that time, think 7th place is more of a sign of teams being crap below us rather than a good position tbh.

Which is my general point - I've not seen a side that is going to threaten us greatly yet, albeit we need a kick up the arse.
 

Which is my general point - I've not seen a side that is going to threaten us greatly yet, albeit we need a kick up the arse.
If we carry on our current form, every side below us (and i mean every side) is going to threaten us.

We need to snap out of this malaise very quickly, because with the fixtures we've got coming up there is a very real possibility that we'll be going into January in a worse position than when the last manager got sacked. We're better than that and it shouldn't happen, but make no mistake, it's definitely not out of the question with the way we're playing.
 
Which is my general point - I've not seen a side that is going to threaten us greatly yet, albeit we need a kick up the arse.

We do, burnley and swansea do represent points lost rather than just results. I would argue we were second best against chelsea city and bournemouth though, sometimes you just are the worse team. Could we have done better vs Bournemouth? Probably, we have just a good a team as them sure, but they pick up points all season based on last year so not going to hang up on that.
 
We do, burnley and swansea do represent points lost rather than just results. I would argue we were second best against chelsea city and bournemouth though, sometimes you just are the worse team. Could we have done better vs Bournemouth? Probably, we have just a good a team as them sure, but they pick up points all season based on last year so not going to hang up on that.

We definitely shouldn't have dropped the points we have mate.

We were hammered by Chelsea and got lucky (albeit put in a good defensive display) vs City. As you rightly say we just didn't turn up against Bournemouth.
 
Which is my general point - I've not seen a side that is going to threaten us greatly yet, albeit we need a kick up the arse.

That's about it alright - though I would certainly think that Koeman has not held back in training.

It's not like 30 years ago, players have all the aces these days, you wonder what exactly can be done. Discipline in training was lost under Martinez and we have a group of players used to being praised and cosseted.

The days of a player being intimidated by Ronald Koeman walking in are long gone.

As well as Koeman, it's time now for the senior pros to step up - we have two international captains in the back four, and the squad if anything, is weighted with aged players - it's their responsibility too.

After the derby defeat last year, I recall someone on here suggesting that Bill or one of the other directors should step in and speak to the players, it really was that bad. It should never come to that but the main issue is that we don't have a lot of vocal, mouthy players, older, or younger, in this group. There is not a great deal of leadership.

All I can think of currently is to get Duncan involved more - a bit more British grit would make a good counterbalance to RK and EK, but perhaps this is there already.
 

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